Obituaries

Eddis Louise Shoemaker was a third-generation Washingtonian and graduated in 1931 from Western High School. She attended George Washington University before graduating from the Washington School for Secretaries.

She spent a few years as a legal secretary for the Cromelin & Laws law firm in Washington. After the United Stated entered World War II, Mrs. Heid was briefly a legal secretary in the Justice Department's alien enemy control unit.

In 1991, she moved from Falls Church to Asbury Methodist Village.

Her husband, Francis P. Heid, whom she married in 1939, died in 1973.

Survivors include two sons, Paul M. Heid of Baltimore and Charles F. "Chuck" Heid of Warrenton; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

-- Adam Bernstein

Virginia S. PierceSecretary, Volunteer

Virginia Shepherd Pierce, 91, a Federal Aviation Administration secretary and American Red Cross volunteer, died Aug. 10 at her home in Falls Church. She had leukemia.

Mrs. Pierce worked for the FAA from 1968 to 1971 and from 1977 to 1981.

Over the years, she was a secretary for the American Red Cross chapter in Arlington; ran a cake-decoration business; co-owned and operated with her husband a Dairy Queen in Falls Church; and was an aide at Arlington Hospital, where she also was a maternity ward volunteer.